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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
countless
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hours
▪ The Victorians spent countless hours on trains and passed many of them reading books.
▪ We spent countless hours lying on a blanket spread in the sun on the fragrant grass.
▪ Daily it devours whole forests and countless hours of sweated labour.
▪ During the time I was bedridden, I spent countless hours writing encouraging letters and praying for others.
▪ But people in Great Groups are different from those who spend countless hours in thrall to video games or other trivial pursuits.
▪ Even though Rice despised fund-raising, he would spend countless hours at it in his years at Black Mountain.
▪ Wagner, Roberto, Hugo, and the others had obviously spent countless hours together.
▪ Each of the educators and programs in these pages developed over countless hours of experimentation and trial and error.
millions
▪ Insects number countless millions, and perform vital ecological functions.
▪ The lives of countless millions of people have been made a misery through the conflicts arising from prejudice.
▪ Its life-cycle starts with a spore, of which there are countless millions in the atmosphere.
occasion
▪ If the legend is true, he kept his word for he was seen on countless occasions over the years.
▪ I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will.
other
▪ And there are countless other examples of women giving up their career dream to make a relationship work.
▪ Since then Savas has studied other services and reviewed countless other studies.
▪ There are countless other examples, but I can't go on, it's depressing me too much.
▪ Voting patterns, survey responses, and countless other signs showed that they had not.
▪ He was sacked four times and faced heavy pressure on countless other occasions.
others
▪ Revered by millions, he is detested by countless others.
▪ Perella, Wasserstein, and countless others apart from Drexel relished the turn of events.
▪ Not for that man or the countless others like him.
▪ It had happened to Mr McPhetson, the boat captain, and to countless others.
▪ The attacks also instilled fear in countless others throughout the city.
people
▪ It has the power to reform and transform lives ad through it countless people have been given new strength.
▪ Being labeled abnormal has determined how countless people feel about themselves.
▪ Gunmen have driven countless people from their villages and seized or burned their homes.
▪ That made it impossible to identify her; countless people had moved away over the years.
thousands
▪ His previous books have become classics and have been read by countless thousands.
times
▪ He'd wondered countless times, ever since that first call it had played on his mind.
▪ This view has been expressed countless times in the past four centuries.
▪ Kathleen had warned her countless times in the past, but this time she had had enough.
▪ So, countless times she gave up her own food when an unexpected guest arrived at dinnertime.
▪ I have observed this countless times in a number of beetle groups.
▪ The celestial bodies than proceed to pass through the same series of configurations as they had done countless times before.
▪ She had been to Nice countless times.
▪ This mental dimorphism was remarked upon countless times throughout RajasthanRabari women were clever, shrewd, outspoken and wise.
ways
▪ A problem person may cause you a headache in countless ways.
▪ These upheavals have shaken and shaped the twentieth century, and in countless ways they affect our lives still.
▪ That is not really surprising; from the moment the board is set up, chess mimics humankind in countless ways.
▪ These can be used in countless ways, several of which are shown in the illustration.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We had to peel back countless layers of paint and wallpaper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An old rocking horse beside the window has given countless rides to the Pages' children and five grandchildren.
▪ As soon as the ideator's feet hit the floor in the morning, he or she starts to generate countless possibilities.
▪ At length he returned to the boarded-up shell which had been his family seat for countless generations.
▪ Every year, countless agonising deaths occur through the pollution of rivers from factories or oil spillages at sea.
▪ Since then Savas has studied other services and reviewed countless other studies.
▪ There also are countless hiking trails near the lake and in the surrounding mountains.
▪ Thousands of mental states, endless varieties of love, and countless supernormal powers are dramatized in the lives of the saints.
▪ Travel agents can help with arrangements and suggest countless more.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Countless

Countless \Count"less\ (-l?s), a. Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
countless

"numberless, uncountable," 1580s, from count (v.) + -less.

Wiktionary
countless

a. Too many to count; innumerable or incalculable

WordNet
countless

adj. too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad(a), multitudinous, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable]

Usage examples of "countless".

Officers were allowed in the march, which passed through countless throngs of people from International Headquarters to Abney Park Cemetery, a distance of about five miles.

And he ordained that by the counsels of Aeaean Circe they should cleanse themselves from the terrible stain of blood and suffer countless woes before their return.

According to some Aestheticians the indefinable emotions we sometimes feel when listening to music are the reverberations of feelings experienced countless ages ago.

Eliza thinks back to countless Amidahs spent waiting to hear that voice.

When the light touched the rock just right, tiny dimples could be seen, marks left by countless patient blows from a stone ax held in the hands of an Anasazi stone mason.

In the process great quantities of ocean water, together with countless myriads of living marine creatures, were scooped up and suspended among the Andean ranges.

Rama had heard countless tales of Asura atrocities before, nightmare tales from the Last Asura War, which he knew still haunted his father, the maharaja, on moonless awamas nights such as this onefor awamas was the night when evil flourishedbut never had he heard of or envisioned such atrocities taking place within the walls of his home city, mighty Ayodhya herself.

Peering ahead with a spyglass, Audubon saw countless dark valleys half hidden by the pines and cycads that gave the mountains their name.

The leaflets of Averrhoa made a countless number of little oscillations when the temperature was high and the sun shining.

Everyone in Avignon was out for the night, viewing one of the countless performances, watching the fireworks, soaking up the sights and smells of a festival.

Then came the gracious Princess of Pleasure and her daughter Folly, leading her subjects - players of dice, cards and back-gammon, conjurers, bards, minstrels, storytellers, drunkards, bawds, balladmongers and pedlars with their trinkets in countless number, to be at length instruments of punishment to the damned fools.

Harkonnen, in recognition of the valor, innovation, and bravery you displayed during the recent attack on Zimianot to mention countless other worthy demonstrations of your value to the Army of the Jihad over the course of your careerI am pleased to raise you from the rank of bator to the superior rank of bashar, level four.

Mostly it passed through countless miles of Texas coastal swamp that eventually transitioned to blackland prairie.

And here browse countless herds of dappled deer, Blesboks and antelopes, remote from fear.

While in Brahminism man was deprived of his individuality, and regarded only as an effluence from Brahma, and tormented by the fear of hell, and by the thought of a ceaseless process of countless new births awaiting him after death, whence the necessity of the most painful penances and chastisements, Sakya-muni began with man as an individual, and in morals put purity, abstinence, patience, brotherly love, and repentance for sins committed above sacrifice and bodily mortification, and opened to his followers the prospect, after this weary life, no more to be exposed to the ever-recurring pains of new birth, but released from all suffering to return to Nirvana, or nothingness.